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Tragedy Poems - Poems about Tragedy

Tragedy Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tragedy to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for tragedy.
Swim Lessons
...When you are washed away by the tides of life, Swallowed whole by the anonymity of the sea, Forgotten about, -as meaningless as codfish-, -Battered and bloodied by the ruthless ocean Remember;......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: I do not know?



The Cheese Wars
...It awes me so to stand, pen and paper quivering in my hands; My solemn river of a mind’s been shaken by the quaking land. It seems to me worthwhile to mention, the city’s filled with wild tension. ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Faux Pulchritude Idol
...*nocturne eye flicker* *bite lip* *rip asunder* Malediction of a tragedy fused elegy, mirror of red rum and visage of chaos. The truth is a labyrinth of mirrors, I am the reflection that st......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, dark,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member My Angel
... ' Angel does not appear from heaven but comes to rescue in guise of stranger or associate lending a helping hand.'. ....Poet. When my older daughter got established abroad, ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, angel,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Pieces of Me
... "Its all the odd shaped pieces, all those missing ones, and the found ones that has created the masterpiece that is me." Quote by_......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, grandmother, me, mother daughter,
Form: Verse



It Started With A Promise
...It Started With A Promise It started with a promise A sacred trust we made when we were young. Through happiness and tragedy that Sacred bond enabled both of us to carry on. Standi......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the stillness of a dusk filled with eternal sighs
...In the stillness of a dusk filled with eternal sighs, I wander through the corridors of thoughts, where shadows whisper truths. The tragic spirit emerges, a veil of somber reality, That the world ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
What an ART to get HURT
...You were enchanted by the mystery, You thought it was love and pursued me. Been excited to discover every part of me. Touched me like a book, what an interesting story it could be. I am just or......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, art, beauty, betrayal, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of Innocence
...Echoes of Innocence Who weeps for the child, who carried her father’s gun to school? Was she truly alone in this premeditated tragedy? Did Sesame Street’s lessons reach her tender heart? Nothing......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, 7th grade, abuse, allah,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
... Do androids dream of electric sheep,* do androids even dream? Its creators drempt of loneliness and created companionship, as if computer chips and coding could imbue understanding of......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, loneliness, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
What Are We
...We are naked parts of the bare truth Beings sculpted from dust The curse of eating the forbidden fruit Fragments of sins from the past We are sinners, we are faulty We are fallen stars fro......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, bible, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member question, quelled
... why … could the universe not be created in such a way as to keep the things we cherish from perishing and rending our souls to shards? would it be so absurd to ask a loving god for such fa......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, analogy, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brightest Son
... 2 Kings 6:17 (KJV) “And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full o......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, christian, faith, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Put Ah Lil' Sugar In It
...finances, romances and other current events..a trilogy, burying my beloved niece what a tragedy..overwhelmed but I refuse anything pharmaceutical,what else can go wrong..um spent! put ah lil' sugar ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, allegory, anxiety, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divine Tragedy
... In my limbo betwixt death and rebirth on eternal errand I'm not alone - a journey through circles of Hell on earth in the inferno that leads to the throne. A last pilgrimage in Purgator......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, imagery, introspection,
Form: Sonnet

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